I Spent $150 on this MacBook Pro - Why It's Still Great!

[@psivewri]

Thanks for watching! I forgot to mention that the battery cycle count was about 300 with a health of 91.2%.

[@dododfr]

your welcome psivewri

[@sl33pless12]

hey loved the video, but can you do a video where you go in depth on how to take appart the logic board? Im having a bit of trouble doing it

[@psivewri]

@@sl33pless12 if you're looking for a great disassembly guide I'd suggest using iFixit. Look up the specific model you've got and you'll find a guide 😊

[@verylushperson]

Hi, just asking, do you give your Minecraft server IP publicly because I would like to join.

[@itsmrma]

I have a 2012 i7 mac mini and it works perfectly. Upgraded with a 500gb ssd and it seems new!

[@ChrisTechmp3]

Ooo! I can’t wait to watch this video! Looks amazing! The 2012 MacBook pro is honestly the best value MacBook in my opinion!

[@SebKaz]

Can't you just comment after you've seen the video XD? You guys really want to be first but hide it by writing a poor message. BTW I'm joking, k'..

[@Jbscddnz]

I had one last year but upgraded to the mba 2019. Prefer the keyboard and durability on the 2012

[@ЗахарВолощук]

​@@Jbscddnz If you only knew that in 2 years there will be a MacBook on m1.

[@peterwesterman2613]

Cleaning time: EUCALYPTUS OILING INTENSIFIES

[@ElectrikNT]

ikr lol.

[@JustinLimWC]

scrolled down to find this comment heh!

[@grizzzlay7389]

How on earth do I get that Eucalyptus spray here in the United States. I Facebook Messaged the company and they don't ship to the US. I NEED to try this stuff!

[@xxhshrebyba]

do you know where we can get some ?

[@peterwesterman2613]

@@xxhshrebyba I don’t unfortunately

[@Diceacious]

I recently patched my 2012 to Big Sur, it is a very reliable computer and is pretty speedy.

[@alejandrocervantes4523]

I did the same to my mid 2010 with an SSD and 8gb ram it runs fucking great I love it

[@asianflex]

can you tell me were to download the patch

[@alejandrocervantes4523]

@@asianflex just search mojave patcher or big sur patcher or whatever version u want patcher by dosdude

[@SAvlogsyt]

how

[@Diceacious]

@@asianflex go on Reddit and go to the r/BigSurPatcher, it’s still not very stable so i don’t know if I would recommend it right now

[@theartistchair_]

I have a mid-2012 Unibody 13” MacBook Pro and is going strong to this day! I upgraded it and it’s really buttery smooth. The screen is not that bad, but the viewing angles are a little bad. I love this MacBook! It’s one of my personal favourite MacBooks! Cheers!

[@frixed18]

I have my mid 2012 with 2 ssd, 16gb ram and patched big sur and still rocks!

[@sammymarrco47]

Ah a Luis rossman viewer I see

[@JP-bh7wb]

@@FlyboyHelosim How does it spy?

[@frixed18]

@@FlyboyHelosim For me big sur works great better performance comparated to catalina and the patcher fix me a weird bug that sometimes i turn on my mac not boot and goes black that doesn`t happen with big sur

[@maybelbdidit]

@@FlyboyHelosim not to mention it is a macbook. if it has an apple logo on it, you can pretty much guess the outcome lmao

[@RealCobby]

@@frixed18 Patcher?

[@propjoe1060]

Typing this from the exact model in this video. One of the best MacBooks that Apple ever released. Rock solid!

[@restorationtech294]

me too! great mac

[@RemuAiBON]

I still use this macbook to this day and it's a literal Tank! Survived a motorbike accident and a thunderstorm (was stored in my backpack but still heavily drenched). I upgraded with 860 evo ssd and 8gigs of ram, and it's smooth as butter

[@dontbethatguy7186]

Sweet!

[@suave-alpaca8412]

I bought this back in early 2013 and I still use it as my daily driver. Applied new thermal paste and clean it regularly. However one of my RAM slot failed around a year ago, so now only runs on single RAM. Aside from that, I still can recommend this model. Here where I live this model still sells for 300 USD++

[@cas9564]

I'm actually using this same MacBook Pro right now! Been doing so for about 2 years and while I've had some issues with heat dissipation, this thing has saved my butt when it comes to needing a proper computer for college, especially since I upgraded it to have 16GB of RAM and replaced the battery and SSD. Still need to replace the thermal paste but this thing has been a very wonderful laptop and I'm planning on keeping it until it cannot function anymore.

[@LalondeJonathan]

I have this exact model. Was getting sluggish over time. Did almost the same, but put 16gb of ram and the dvd was replaced by enclosure with the old drive I use as a in-computer Time Machine. It’s amazing. The SSD actually proved that the biggest bottleneck on this computer was the HDD. It now runs blazingly fast - as long as it’s basic laptop things. I wouldn’t game or edit videos on this thing. But it’s great, and greater than any 8 year old laptop I’ve seen lately.

[@tehcooler]

00:00 Hey man Again see macbook there! ;)

[@psivewri]

It's actually more reliable at recording the video's audio than my Dell G7 😅

[@tehcooler]

@@psivewri Sick Speaker time Bro :D

[@BananaPlaysGames]

yikes lol

[@yunalesca_night_sky8998]

@@psivewri my dell g7 cooked itself with the intel cpu heat i7 8750h and gtx 1060

[@depress10n60]

you guys use pc’s / macbooks? IM STUCK WITH THIS GODDAMN iphone 6s its good but still, i dont have an ACTUAL pc

[@KingKevin108]

I remember in OSRS (This was before the Grand Exchange was introduced) I was level 32 or so before I ever went to Falador. Just had no idea the place existed. I think I had just become a member, too.

[@stevec.2702]

I have a 2011 MBP. Bought 3 years ago, did a HDD to SSD and Ram upgrade. Its a good solid machine. Nothing flash or fast but I love the ports on offer.

[@fixingfaming]

Nice one man! The 2012’s still have plenty of power left in them. I’m still rocking my 15in 2011 with 8gb of ram 1tb 7200 hdd and a 2.4ghz 2nd gen i7 it’s still Pretty fast considering it’s age .

[@tyrek78]

the failing graphics

[@Darskovia]

One of my oldest memories on Runescape was talking to a Black Knight, not realising it was an NPC and not an ignorant player ;_;

[@Merjia]

I still use my old 2009 Macbook pro fairly regularly, rock solid, was my daily driver from when I got it all the way through year 12, and all of Uni, only retired it in 2016.

[@sl33pless12]

I have one rn and am having serious thermal problems,I upgraded everything but havent applied new thermal paste cause idk which kind to get and im scared im gonna break something

[@Merjia]

@@sl33pless12 definitely replace the paste. Thermal paste is only rated for a few years use. It's a pretty involved process, but there's tonnes of guides online, and just make sure you keep all the screws together in one place, and be patient.

[@sl33pless12]

@@Merjia Ok thanks after you did yours what were your average temps like? Like for me on fullscen youtube im getting 101 degrees centigrade

[@Merjia]

@@sl33pless12 not sure of the exact numbers, but it ran way cooler, the fan doesn't have to spin anywhere near as much as it did.

[@michael791]

Just got one of these with a 3rd gen i7, 16gb of ram and an ssd. I’ve been loving it!

[@ryanlu6103]

ssd* lol

[@michael791]

@@ryanlu6103 oops didn’t see that

[@TitaniumTronic]

@@michael791 how much u got it for?

[@michael791]

@@TitaniumTronic it was my dads but I put in the i7 for like 200

[@TitaniumTronic]

@@michael791 cool

[@mikenothot]

Glad you're back!

[@jonvincentmusic]

Still using my mid 2012 MBP. Works great.

[@petebean2387]

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro. Still works great:)

[@EfftingES]

This channel is awesome. I've been around since the 20k subscribers and videos have always been at this pro level. Keep on going

[@philwolf6721]

Lol, I'm actually doing this exact thing for my mother. She has a 13.3 inch macbook pro that I opened yesterday and began disassembling and cleaning. Thank you so much for the camera angles showing what you did. It'll help me a lot finishing this project.

[@hagihayusiwi6527]

its so satisfying seeing your cleaning process..

[@NorthStar55C1]

Great video Nathan! I've always loved your tech videos.

[@DarenStratton]

Nice one Psivewri! Time for me to feel nostalgic as this is my very first MacBook Pro you’re covering

[@gaijin2162]

my granpa had this from launch, gave it to me recently and i just love it, especially for document writing.

[@georgesenda1952]

How's the arm doing ? And I thought the 2012 is now no longer supported by Apple.

[@John-do9ei]

I might have said this before, but my 2011 13" i7 MBP has been my main machine recently. I bought it new, fully loaded and it was a workhorse until I updated to a 2017 function keys donglebook. I wanted to set up a semi-permanent zoom teaching station at my desk, so I put an SSD in it and run an external monitor. Now I do most of my browsing and streaming this way from my comfy office chair. The camera is better on my donglebook in low light, but this is plenty good enough for teaching. The second monitor allows me to have a lesson in nearpod or powerpoint on one screen and a chat window open on the other. The built-in ethernet port is a huge plus. The only real negative was the old bluetooth standard but that was fixed with a cheap dongle. It's one of those things where people trying to deal with the pandemic who have two jobs, two kids and two computers, if they know someone who can offer one of these machines cheap, it's a real good option. I cleaned up and put an SSD in a 2011 13" i5 for a friend's daughter and it's been fantastic.

[@CACressida]

I bought a mid 2012 15" with the matte screen. It's been upgraded to 16gb ram and two 1tb SSDs. Its lived a very hard life on a laptop stand in the cab of several tractor trailers getting hammered by the sun and harsh vibrations. Till this day its still on the same laptop stand and moved from semi truck to my FJ Cruiser streaming 3 cameras on OBS on road and off. I've tested some windows laptops and new MacBooks to replace my lovely work horse but I still have a hard time trying to replace it. From crappy butterfly keyboards on newer MacBooks to flimsy and ugly designed windows machines. I'll check out the new 16/14" MacBooks as they gained some girth and look promising.

[@JackAndersMusic]

YAY, New Psivewri video

[@Wacypro]

Owned my 2012 hand me down since 2014. Swapped two old Samsung SSDs into it and it's still kicking on MacOS Mojave as a video editing machine.

[@marker_merk]

I’m always lowkey jealous when people get deals like this LMAO can’t find a decent 2012 Macbook Pro for less than $200 USD in the US...

[@kovyvuri]

sometimes, you gotta haggle. Mine was $200, but they really needed it gone so we haggled ang got it down to 150.

[@marker_merk]

@@kovyvuri Makes sense to haggle, but I find it hard with those. I did manage to get a 2012 Macbook Air for free from haggling a few years back.

[@robustta5898]

200 usd still very cheap lol

[@harrison00xXx]

i got in i think 2014 a replacement for my 2009 15" MBP, 300€ for a 2010 15" with 512MB 330M. A cap id dying so my GPU is making kernel panics, will be soon replaced to last for the next few years before i switch to a 2nd, 3rd or even 4th gen ARM Mac.

[@nownow1681]

Bruh you’re broke

[@milkynom]

Just realized, this was my old MacBook that i sold for 300 bucks to buy a PC. I want it back now idk why.

[@DrakeHallGames]

Fake?!

[@milkynom]

@@DrakeHallGames nope, it was the MacBook Pro 13 inch from mid 2012, i got it from my mom in 2017. I upgraded the HDD to a Corsair 180GB SSD (forgot the specific model( and kept the Toshiba 1TB HDD by replacing the CD Drive. I also upgraded the RAM to 8gb.

[@kyle_mk17]

@@milkynom nice

[@kyle_mk17]

@@milkynom I kinda want to buy a macbook pro from 2012, because I love GarageBand and I want to mess with that, although I could mess with dual-booting Mac OS on my HP EliteBook 8770w. There is also a water-damaged HP EliteBook 8770w on eBay for auction, I want to buy it because I will have an extra motherboard when I am done upgrading my 8770w, and I think that restoring that if possible would be really cool.

[@milkynom]

@@kyle_mk17 i don't really recommend dual booting on an older windows laptop actually. But if you're thinking on getting the MacBook, just try to find a 15 inch model. You csn also use Bootcamp to dual boot macOS and Windows. Runs surprisingly great too! My dad has the 15 inch version so i kind of know what's going on.

[@somesituation]

I remember in 2010, 2011 when we were younger we'd go into one of the stores here, a walmart near by, they had a store inside up at the front that had iMacs there for use and we'd sit there for hours playing RS and other games

[@jamesbarreras8548]

This is my first MacBook to which I sold to a friend to replace it with 2020 MBP 13” Intel. Honestly this is the best machine I’ve used and when upgraded, IT is on PAR with today’s models. I think I miss my 2012 MacBook Pro 13 :((

[@ry6000]

YES I love this model; Still daily driving one of these with the i7, 16 GB of RAM, and two 4 TB SSDs for a total of 8 TB of storage, and I don't plan on getting a new laptop anytime soon!

[@Asphaltaperider]

I LOVE the 8 TB of overkill!

[@itsmrma]

Finally a new video!

[@czsrac]

Hi, love your videos. I wonder where u get theese machines so cheap. Whenever i look for cheap mackbook on ebay it costs like 400 dollars or so. Can u make video about buying cheap macbooks? I would love to buy one and clean it up like you!!

[@jaspercowan6671]

Ur videos are so informative! Keep it up!

[@Pendleton115]

Still daily drive the 2.7Ghz 15” version of this laptop. Easily the best MacBook, if not the best laptop ever made. Even runs Big Sur using a bit of tweaking!

[@WickedRibbon]

Can't imagine many 8 year old Windows laptops holding up as well. Great vid!

[@Synthentic]

I also have a 2011 ThinkPad W520 running Windows 10 like a champ, too.

[@ponderingypanda]

Old thinkpads are awesome!

[@T3CHGY007]

I still have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro! Still runs fantastic! I did the samething with it as you did over the time that I have had it! Upped the ram to 8gb and installed a Samsung 500gb SSD! Makes it alot faster!

[@slodoco]

This is the model that I have i5 and everything, I bought it new. Upgraded it to 16gb ram with an SSD in 2015. Still gives some of the newer Mac Books a run for their money. The new M1s are awesome, but I wish they were built like a tank like this mid 2012 is.

[@Crabmax]

Hey Psivewri love your videos watching from the US keep up the great work, happy thanksgiving

[@kristenfurey3426]

I used to have that exact MBP! Ordered mine with 8GB of RAM and the 750GB HD option, after a few years I discovered that despite what Apple claims you can actually throw in 16 GB and it will work just fine, and replaced the HDD with a SATA SSD and it ran super well for several more years!

[@bentownsend1872]

I got one of these for free from where I work as it was decommissioned, but it seemed that something was wrong with the original logic board. After getting a replacement (albeit not the i7 that was in there already) it came back to life. The replacement board doesn't have the connection for the keyboard backlight, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make for the price of the board and a magsafe charger. You can patch it to run MacOS Monterey and it is still surprisingly usable with 8GBs of RAM and a SSD in comparison to my main windows PC and M1 iPad.

[@gabrielserrano9054]

Love your videos

[@kiratwalia7803]

I forgot your channel name so I just typed eucalyptus tech guy now here

[@gp3328]

I love the macbook air in the background lol. I want a mbp for macros and an extra editing pc.

[@gp3328]

@c6amp sorry but I dont like linux and hackintosh is just not necessary.

[@gp3328]

@c6amp I mean i like windows way more its just that mac os has imove and fcp

[@gp3328]

@c6amp yeag

[@Rawwr1ful]

the UK market is pretty awful price wise but i don't regret spending £250 on one and doing some upgrades.. it still wipes the floor with other modern laptops i have used. The perfect student machine!

[@janneboman8573]

I regret selling mine... :( purcased it relatively cheap with just 4 gigs of ram and a spinning drive. Upgraded to 16 gigs of ram and a ssd I had floating around. Killer with the upgrades.

[@freetobe3]

I wish I had the 2012 model. I got the late 2011 in early 2012 and a few months later they update it with usb 3, better cpu and ddr4 ram. All these things are a must 10 years down the road. Mine is showing it's age and it's well worn.

[@jeyendeoso]

Hi Psivewri! I am a big fan of your videos! I have some reccomendations for your next videos! Do you think you could try running youtube videos in 4k as well as 1080p? it would be great to see if those (not so) old machines can keep up with modern videos!

[@pabloguerrero284]

I love your videos man, keep it!

[@anshulsinghaifr]

i don't know but this guy reminds me of luna lovegood from harry potter xD

[@Piquliar]

I have an old HP ProBook 4440s, years ago, when I got it it had a dual core Pentium clocked at 2.3 Ghz and 2Gbs of ram. That was the first laptop that I truly upgraded: got a core i5 3210m (same as in this old macbook), 8Gbs of ram and a 500Gb Samsung SSD. That thing was quick AF but sadly the mobo's got some issues. I'll fix it when I have the inclination one of these days since I've got other laptops but the nostalgia of upgrading the CPU and stuff in a laptop is nice when so many laptops are barely upgradable these days.

[@ErhanGaming]

Your production value is through the roof, but you already know that!

[@MultiStormywaters]

It's amazing how viable old Mac hardware still is with newer Mac OS builds. I finagled Catalina onto a 2011 i5/4GB RAM Macbook air, and it still runs much better than a nine year old laptop has any expectation to. The OS and basic applications/web browsing are just as snappy as on a new machine.

[@ParadoxdesignsOrg]

I just bought a 2012 MBP, upgraded it with a SSD and 16GB of RAM for $60. Works great! just edited my last movie with it no problem. only 71 battery cycles, too. wow!

[@benzenegaming3199]

I have the 15 and 13 inch models of this MacBook Pro and I love these. They run great after I cleaned them up internally and redid the thermal compound

[@Mr.Plant1994]

I still own this exact model. I had the ram upgraded, and switched to a solid state drive but beyond that it hasn’t changed much in years. I don’t use it much anymore but I definelty got my moneys worth out of it so it was worth every penny.

[@enzopissani]

Nice vid! I was thinking of buying a macbook, and looking at this model I determined that it's exactly what I need, I have a 2011 mini server and it does still perform awesome, so that machine is definetly going to fit my needs, thank you! greetings from Argentina!

[@Mohmed-jf2hk]

man I LOVE your videos!!

[@michaelwood9866]

I was given a 2010 that I thoroughly cleaned and thermal pasted...put a samsung evo 860 in it and am running Catalina 10.15.7 really smoothly

[@T800-k5b]

Flipping items for profiton the Grand Exchange is what 80% of my 1500 hours on OSRS were spent doing. Got to love tanning some cowhide in Al Kharid or taking some logs to the sawmill to be planked for some easy gp.

[@SwankyBip]

people keep saying that x86 macs are dead, but you could just install windows or just use older versions of MacOS, great job man

[@blakerala5732]

Hello good to see you back :)

[@gammaboost]

5:10 "I'm not entirely sure what this is, and honestly, I'd rather not know what it is." Same stuff that was underneath my 2011 iMac's stand when I first got it, which also appeared to make all the aluminium, including the accessories, smell kind of bad.

[@Zebra_Paw]

If you want 32 bits apps, Mojave is the latest version supporting them. Otherwise, this device has a Metal accelerated GPU, so running Big Sur or Monterey is no problem at all! Monterey likely isn't the latest version it will run, but it's the latest by the time I am writing this comment!

[@omegaman1409]

I still have a MBP 15 from mid 2010. Incredibly I have been using it for photo editing. I finally got a new laptop. Its not a MBP but the mid 2010 is a winner.

[@humankerbal3623]

2:30, Mac Batt: DO NOT REMOVE. Psiverwri: haha glue go BRRRRRRRRRRR.

[@goemboeck]

Agreed from my 2011 MBP.

[@nicholasdasti7563]

I had one of these. Probably the last good Mac laptop before Apple started to go in the wrong direction

[@sonicunleashedfan124]

I actually have a 2012 21.5” iMac that I installed windows 10 and macOS Catalina on. Those macs from 2012 still hold up today and can run 32-bit apps on windows

[@Antphoneigh]

Meanwhile, sales of Eucalyptus Oil skyrockets and the CEO does not know why.

[@remasteredvideosongs]

Great making! Actually sometimes i feel that the older mode are the best rather than the newer one in terms of value for money. I have one from early 2015 13.3 inch macbook pro.It really handles the 4k video editing in a goood manner!

[@NormanF62]

Max out the RAM with 16 GB and it really flies! I have the maxed out A1278 pre Retina mid 2012 Intel i5 with a 1TB SSD. Catalina is the last modern Mac OSX that’s natively supported but it can run a patched version of Big Sur. Despite being nearly a decade old, its still holds its value well in 2021.

[@clickpond7825]

I still actually daily drive my 2012 13" unibody, I love it to death. Have it with an optibay, with macOS 11 Big Sur and Windows 10, both running perfectly.

[@basic086]

The MacBook Pro 2012 is a classic! On another note, scored a 27inch 2011 iMac for 150au$ haha definitely had to use your cleaning tips and worked a treat, cheers for that!

[@jacobchurch10]

I have one of these unofficially running Big Sur and it runs great!

[@DordiHOTS]

I use my 2012 macbook pro every day and I love it. Just upgraded the SSD and RAM and replaced the battery. 16GB RAM 3 Ghz i7 1TB SSD

[@mshamatuli]

I like your videos @Psivewri - I got one of these last year and it's my main laptop, with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and now with a Patched Sur-enabled installation of MacOS Big Sur 11.6. The battery gives me about 7hours and has 252 cycles (I was fortunate the battery was replaced). It runs well, while I use a Dell Latitude for official work.

[@bariumlanthanum6298]

recently, my 2012 ThinkPad X1C gen 1 (i7 8gb 256ssd) stopped working, so I got my dad's old MBP(this exact model) as a temporary replacement to take to school till its repaired. It holds up pretty well, feels really premium, and runs all the programming stuff I use pretty well

[@BigMaNdavu]

KZbin recommended me watching a video of him praising the device I am using right now amazing

[@Mr_L1n4x]

Hey psivewri if you can I would love to see you reviewing a thinkpad, especially the t430 since it has more or less the same specs as this laptop but it does have diferent quirks and it can be found very cheap on ebay, fun fact a friend of mine has this exact same laptop and we put it in comparison with my t430

[@vincent.b1392]

You're back!

[@daserfomalhaut9809]

While it is something I do, cleaning my computer stuff is not something I get to nearly enough. This guy made me wanna change that. Took apart my keyboard as stripped down my laptop as far as I was comfortably going with it. It's quite satisfying. My keyboard was....gross.

[@bitcat3909]

Fianlly, I thought you died 🤣. Great video! I am always satisfied on every on of your videos!

[@sammymarrco47]

I use one like this and it works fine for most things, it can even edit 4K video. Impressive

[@robertdominguez6002]

I fond your videos extremely therapeutic.

[@amtrix1]

G’day mate now where on earth do I buy this eucalyptus oil?

[@thepotatomine9372]

6:51 now you will get a lot of friend request of steam lol

[@cadenchurchill4296]

I definitely would want to use the M1 MacBook Pro, but the keyboards on these old ones were so good!

[@thomascobb5514]

i just got a mid 2012 and i upgraded it with 16 gb of ram and a 512gb ssd and big sur with a patcher and i can’t tell a difference between newer intel macbooks for what i am doing still a very fast machine

[@mecrumbly429___4]

I've got one of these exact 13` MacBook pros (yes, from 2012) with Arch Linux/KDE running on it. It's safe to say that Psivewri isn't one bit wrong about its usability.

[@HwL01]

For me I'll remove the optical drive, and add an extra solid state drive there.

[@computerkiddo7644]

You can use the Big Sur Micropatcher on GitHub to run Big Sur on that laptop (and many other "unsupported" Macs). Definitely check it out!

[@shaunclarke04]

quick note: catalina is loosing support September this year. it would still work fine for most things but just make sure you install all the apps you need to use. (such as adobe CC for example, currently supports catalina, but is probably losing support the same time apple drops support. make sure you have the latest version installed because you won't be able to install newer versions once support drops. it won't even let you install older versions which technically work even though adobe does let you install old versions of their software) that goes for pretty much every app which supports a minimum of 10.15

[@josephstalin9307]

Someone on MacRumors sells speedy and modern WiFi + BT upgrade cards for these MacBooks, pair it with the OpenCore Legacy macOS Big Sur patch on a fast SSD paired with some RAM, it’s pretty neat. Battery upgrades aren’t so expletives either and if you want, you could probably undervolt the CPU and IGPU to squeeze more performance and battery life!